Is there an opposite for the term “Backporting”?
As I understand, the term “Backporting” is used to describe a fix which is applied in a future version which is also ported to a previous version. Wikipedia definition is as follows:
What is the concept of software wear and tear?
I have heard that over time, software can begin to show signs of wear and tear.
What is the way to understand someone else’s giant uncommented spaghetti code? [duplicate]
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I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now?
What should I aware of , when preparing a document of website for later maintenance use? [closed]
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How would you react if someone told you your code is a mess?
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How can I determine how to charge for supporting SharePoint sites and SharePoint development? [closed]
Closed 11 years ago.
Functional testing before code checkin
I am working on a project with legacy code where it does not have much code coverage. One of the idea to improve that is to enforce a rule that each code check-in must have test, not only test but functional test as well, so that we can verify that the existing code did not break.
How to convince my coworkers that doing things right will save them time
I recently started at a new company, with a handful of programmers. Its a medium sized company, with around 70 employees, but IT only has 9-10, and there are 3 “programmers” beside myself. However, these guys have very limited experience and are doing a lot of stuff really terribly. For example, one of our projects is a PHP website. The majority of the code is stored in a 20,000 line PHP controller, with ~6000 lines of JavaScript embedded in the PHP.
Policy and practice on code maintenance
I just came out of University and have been working at this company for roughly 8 months, while I was given the title of developer, most of the time I have spent on is fixing and debugging other people’s codes.
Study a project to be able to maintain it in future [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.